Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-15
LOCAL 8REvITlES.
How To EAT AN OYSTER

| How To EAT AN OYSTER.
| Don't throw him deep in vinegar,
Or season him at ali;
Don't cover up his shining form
| With pepper. like a pail
| But gently lift him from his shell
And firmly hold your breath.
Then. with Your eager tongue and teeth.
| just tickle him 10 death.
| New York Journal.
Detective Danto. of Nenia. was in the
city yesterday.
Mrs. Lillian Kelley spent the day with
friends at LagOnda.
Mr.. Robert Q. King left this morning
for San Francisco, Cal.
| Miss Rose Fassler arrived home this
morning from Aiken. S. c.
Health Officer Dunlap has received a
fresh supply of vaccine virus.
DIR. X. McMurdy, of Washington, ID. c.,
was in the city today visiting friends.
The Newark. Ohio, city council passed a
! 10 o'clock saloon ordinance last night.
Twelve persons were baptiSed in the
First Baptist Church, Sunday eyenting.
The twelve-year-old daughter of Robert
Clark, of Pearl street, is very Ill with diph-
iberia.
Attorney John l.. Zimmerman ran over
to indianapolis and back last night on legal
business.
Charles Weir, the young son of VIM.
! Weir. of Clark street. died this morning of
diphtheria.
/ August kOllefrath, esq. of Marysville,
formerly citizen of Springfield. is in the
city visiting his parents.
Mrs. William Wilson, 66 Grand avenue.
has been called TO Gordonsyille. Va. by the
sudden illness OF her daughter, Mrs. {. NJ.
| Souders.
Messrs. VIM. S. Field and A. p. l.. Coch-
ran were today appointed by Probate Judge
Miller, executors of the estate of Nathania
+. Stone. recently deceased.
This is the regular monthly meeting day
OF the Central Ohio Eclectic Medical asso-
citation, and the body is in session, if the
weather doesn't prevent quorum.
Landlord Ed Voight. of the Lagonda
house, writes home from Chattanooga,
Tenn, that it is the greatest city in the
world. He will remove there shortly.
The cards are out for the wedding of
Mss Magging Forbes to Mr.. Mitchell Col
liuS. at the residence of the brides parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Forbes. at Clifton.
next Thursday evening.
The Jennie Caef company passed through
this forenoon. on their way from down the
Ohio Southern TO Dayton, Ohio. They
took lunch al the Arcade restaurant, and
Miss Calef surrounded a cheese sandwich
aud the breast of a chicken with much
gusto.
Ellie Balentine was arrested Sunday for
co implicitly with her man. John Bown. in
stealing corn from the McCarty farm. west
Of the city. The officers are still finding
places where the man sold corn and they
must have got away with IS or 40 bushels
at least
City Clerk Shewalter. while in Cincin-
natl Friday. secured propositions from two
lithogrsphing firms for printing the market
house bonds, and bid will also be put in |
by an Indianapolis firm, and possibly one
or two more may be presented for action |
tjmorrow evening.
Miss Minnie \. Barney. of Syracuse. y. |
Y, who is now on the staff of the Chdu-
{ tIuTtGn, at Meadyille. Pa, spent Sun
day in this city with her friends. Mr. and
Mrs. c. NJ. Nichols. She is an accom-
piished and excellent young lady, and her
stay in Springfield was all too short.
The day officer in the first ward had a
narrow escape from getting into Doyle's
saloon, on east Columbia street, Sunday,
while il was running at full blast, but they
were too many for him and got the back
door locked and the blinds down before he
could get in or catch on to any names of
the inmates.
Mr.. ID. b. Martin, of St. Louis, has Just
been appointed general passenger and
ticket agent of the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati x indianapolis railroad. vice A.
J. Smith resigned, who takes the manage
ment of the Lake Shore railroad Mr..
Martin has most enviable reputation as
railroad man.
Sheriff Linkhart and Deputy Brannum,
Of Osborn. went TO indianapolis, Saturday
night. and returned Sunday morning,
bringing with them Clarence Thayer and
VIM. Stafford, who had been held by the
officers OF the HoOser Capital and turned
over on a requisition from Governor For
iker. The boys are wanted for the Osborn
burglary. having been indicted by the last
grand jury.-Xenia Gazette.
Parties who were digging well on the
fam of John Manning. three miles east of
West Milton, Miami county. struch a pile
If wood and some well-preserved pottery
nearly thirty feet below the surface. The
wood was so far decayed that its variety
'ould not be determined. The sticks were
rom four to five feet in length, some round
md others split They were found in a
ned of gravel just below a stratum of blue
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